Their names, in a crossword, on every table.

Type in the names and the in-jokes. We build a real grid around them, you write the clues, and the table solves it over coffee.

Start with your words

Free to start. Nothing to install.

Built from BRIDE · CAKE · TOAST

For the day, not for the newspaper

Weddings, birthdays, a christening, a farewell party. The words are the ones only that room knows: where they met, the dog's name, the year of the trip nobody will drop. Everything around them comes from a real dictionary, so a guest who was not there can still finish it.

Weddings
Birthdays
Farewell parties
Gifts worth keeping

How it works

Your words stay the hard part. The rest is a short, visible path from a blank page to something ready to hand over.

1
Your words go in

Names, in-jokes, whatever you like. Every one of them lands in the grid, or we name the one that would not fit.
2
The grid builds itself

Around your words, completed from a real dictionary. You get a few to choose between.
3
You write the clues

Each one starts from the dictionary. Rewrite any of them in place, in your own voice.
4
Print it or share it

A sheet with the answers on the back, or a QR code guests solve on their phone.

Print it. Scan it. Solve it.

The same puzzle works on paper and on a phone, so everyone at the table can join in their way.

Crossmio

Built from BRIDE · CAKE · TOAST

One letter per cell. Each clue carries the number of the cell its answer starts in.

Across

1 a health resort near a spring or at the seaside
4 the 5th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
7 the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye
8 kick the ball
9 a person considered as descended from some ancestor
13 slices of bread that have been toasted
14 make a low noise, characteristic of bovines
15 large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male
16 to hold fast or prevent from moving
17 a flat (usually rectangular) container for a letter, thin package, etc.
21 the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
22 a woman who has recently been married
23 of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
24 a mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics who is renowned for profound wisdom

Down

1 surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots
2 a false or unsupportable quality
3 freed from any question of guilt
4 pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
5 either extremity of something that has length
6 cause to run in panic
8 the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
10 a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
11 sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)
12 a United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds
17 the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
18 16 ounces avoirdupois
19 a mouth or mouthlike opening
20 domestic swine

Answer key

Across

1 spa
4 hes
7 orb
8 punt
9 descendant
13 TOAST
14 moo
15 elk
16 pin
17 envelopes
21 ace
22 BRIDE
23 red
24 sage

Down

1 sod
2 pretence
3 absolved
4 hunt
5 end
6 stampede
8 pes
10 CAKE
11 noise
12 ton
17 ear
18 lbs
19 ora
20 pig

A sheet to print

The puzzle on one page, the answers on the next, in A4 or Letter. It picks the layout that fits.

This one opens the page you are reading.

A code for the table

Guests point a phone at it and solve from there. The link keeps working long after the day, so a printed card does not go stale.

Crossmio 3 words left

12 across

She said yes before the cake arrived

It solves on a phone

Letters go in with the phone's own keyboard, and the clue follows the square you are in. Checking and revealing are there for the table that gives up.

Make every puzzle yours.

Create a free account to keep your puzzles with you, move between devices, and make more each month.

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Published links and QR codes keep working whether you sign in or not.

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Keep your puzzles with you. 10 creations and 10 generations each month.

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Planned

Up to 100 creations and generations a month, plus clean exports without the Crossmio mark.

For the day, not for the newspaper

How it works

Your words go in

The grid builds itself

You write the clues

Print it or share it

A sheet to print

A code for the table

It solves on a phone

No account

Free account

Pro